Lebanese Option Party () is a Lebanese political party. It is headed by Ahmad Kamel Asaad, the son of the former speaker of the

Lebanese Parliament The Lebanese Parliament (, ) is the unicameral national parliament of the Lebanon, Republic of Lebanon. There are 128 members elected to a four-year term in Electoral district, multi-member constituencies, apportioned among Lebanon's divers ...

Kamel El-Assaad and the grandson of the former speaker of the Parliament

Ahmad El-Assaad Ahmad El-Assaad or Ahmad Al-As'ad () (1902 – 16 March 1961) was Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament from 5 June 1951, till 30 May 1953. Life Family background El-Assaad was the scion of a Shia feudal dynasty, which was established by Ali A ...

. Lebanese Option strongly protests the political

hegemony Hegemony (, , ) is the political, economic, and military predominance of one State (polity), state over other states, either regional or global. In Ancient Greece (ca. 8th BC – AD 6th c.), hegemony denoted the politico-military dominance of ...

of the two movements

Hezbollah Hezbollah ( ; , , ) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. I ...

and

Amal Movement The Amal Movement () is a Lebanese political party and militia affiliated mainly with the Shia community of Lebanon. It was founded by Musa al-Sadr and Hussein el-Husseini in 1974 as the "Movement of the Deprived." The party has been led by ...

on the Shi'ite community in Lebanon. Its platform is more in line with the Lebanese

March 14 Alliance The March 14 Alliance (), named after the date of the Cedar Revolution, was a coalition of political party, political parties and independents in Lebanon formed in 2005 that were united by their anti-Ba'athist Syria, Assad stance and by their opp ...

and greatly opposed to mainstream

Shi'ite Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood to ...

movements allied with the

March 8 Alliance The March 8 Alliance () is a loose coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon formed in 2005 that are united by their pro- Ba'athist Syria stance and their opposition to the former March 14 Alliance. It was the ruling coalition ...

, namely Hezbollah and Amal Movement. But the Lebanese Option is not an official part of the March 14 Alliance and keeps an independent secular status. In early June 2013, a Lebanese Option activist, and head of the party's student wing Hashem Salman was shot deadFahd Al Zayab
Lebanon’s Shi’ites divided over Hezbollah’s role in Syria
''Asharq Alawsat'' 15 June 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013 during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut. The protest, organized by the LOP, criticized Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian Civil War. In mid-October 2013, its leader, Ahmad El-Assaad, called for Lebanon to cut ties with

Bashar al-Assad Bashar al-Assad (born 11September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer and former dictator Sources characterising Assad as a dictator: who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until fall of the Assad regime, his government ...

's government and the expulsion of its ambassador.http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/10/16/assaad-calls-for-cutting-ties-with-the-syrian-regime/

References

External links

Official website of Lebanese Option Party
2007 establishments in Lebanon Political parties in Lebanon Political parties established in 2007 {{Lebanon-party-stub